The Business Times, 4 August 2003

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  • 13 1 MJT7s^Pya2*C^oo3 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet http.//business-times.asial ccm.sg MONDAY, AUGUST 4 2003
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  • 592 1  -  They command 9.1% premium, against 2.9% overall average: study By\ Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] What's the premium that HDB resale flats command for being located close to MRT stations? A study by Knight Frank of 1,462 resale transactions registered with the Housing Development Board
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  • 63 1 Week Change ST1 1557.08 -9.85 KLSKCOMP 723.03 +1150 NIKKEI 225 9611.67 36.34 HANG SENG 1W248.60 +309.40 SFT INDEX 491.54 *6.68 JAKARTA COMP -508.70 -1J8 MANILA COMP 1235.10 -48.50 TAIPEI WP1 5390.51 4.24 SEOUL COMP 727.26 +22.17 SHENZHEN B 23li7 +2.80 AI STALLORD .*****0 +44.70 DOW JONES *****7 -130.60 NASDAQ
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  • 83 1 FOREX RATES US* SS ISS |S$ per IS$) 1.764 S|1 NS/SS per S) I WKi 2.833 E1R0(1 SS/SS/E). 1.121 1.977 YEN 120 4 68.20 RM UN 2.154 HKS 7.799 4421 BAHT 42.111 23.81 RI'PIAH aSlU 4.824 RENMINBI 8.299 4 704 INDIAN Rl PEE 46.17 26.17 AS 1.547 0.877 NZS
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  • 699 1  -  BT exclusive Small investors' body plans to apply for licence soon By I Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Equity research in Singapore will enter a new era soon as the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) lines up a team of experienced financial analysts for
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  • 732 1  -  BT exclusive ADB's chief economist sees India, Thailand as possible beneficiaries Fnrrri. Anthony Rowley in Manila CHINA could lose foreign direct investment to other Asian nations such as Thailand and India, or even to countries outside the region in the wake
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    • 14 1 How and why the IMF slipped up in Indonesia PgB ma 8 ******1 *****4
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    • 228 1 The 'R' word Singapore's been waiting fon RECOVERY How bright is the picture for the economy and the markets for the rest of this year? Find out in BT's special National Day issue 4* I 4 r£pt BUT Accenture to sharpen focus on outsourcing pgis TANG WENG FAI: Why prepaid
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    • 562 2  -  Over-charging can be fixed but under-charging can be costly: study By. Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] How much should Apple have priced its first iMacs or Nokia its latest wireless gizmos? Probably more than they did, according to a study. After spending
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    • 444 2  -  Cordial mood shows they have moved on from trade data tiff By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Showing that they have put their recent tiff over the publication of trade data behind them, Indonesian and Singapore leaders will this morning attend a ceremony marking
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    • 735 2  -  BT exclusive US to spend US$1b on new security technologies By 1 Raja Chellam [SINGAPORE] Singaporebased companies that offer products or services for defence electronics, biometrics, identification and authentication and cyber security may be able to tap the huge US market for
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 604 3  -  Company with big-name clients and $100m revenue operates globally ifc Vince Chong DRAWING determination from his death-defying feat at the age of one, Hi-P managing director and co-found-er CT Yao has watched his company grow to become one of Singapore's largest
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    • 189 3 AZTECH Ltd returned to the black for the first half of 2003 following efforts to restructure its costs and to improve margins. The company, which makes data and personal communication products, said yesterday it made a net profit of $1.12 million in
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    • 317 3  -  Byi Genevieve Cua THE level of transparency in the unit trust industry is set to rise a few notches with a number of novel moves by APS Asset Management for its new Alpha fund for retail investors. APS said it will hold
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    • 686 5 They say all signs point to market surprises in second half Bloomberg STOCK markets in Hong Kong and Singapore have lagged this year's rally in Asian shares. They may catch up in the second half, according to Norman Villamin, Asia-Pacific strategist at Morgan Stanley.
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    • 961 5  -  HOCK lock siew siow li sen DBS Group Holdings and United Overseas Bank may be operating in the same business and market, but the two Singapore banking groups could not have more different perspectives and results. Admittedly, some of the differences which were
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      312 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 1 VALUE CLOSE BTOB/OS -316.00 +15.00 BTCAW -*****.00 +101.00 BT10-<UylM -*****.00 -32.00 M-SGE*Mm 422.44 +1.57 SG Eqaftm Efcct 153.23 +0.68 SCC««HmHH 1322.36 +7.31 SG Eqaite Prop 392.84 -0.23 ■BCIfljjlHii 192.15 +0.51 SMSCtFrtam 190.00 unch Stock* Votow IPCO 20c 210,529.000 Interra 5c 202,479,000 MultiVis HK7c 169,985,000 Integra
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    • 291 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By' Ven Sreenivasan ALTHOUGH the market is showing signs of tiredness after a strong rally over the previous three months, the pattern of rotational trading and value picking is likely to remain intact. In short, while
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    • 651 4  -  BT comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan AFTER surging some 20 per cent from its midMarch lows, the market seems to be showing distinct signs of tiredness. The Straits Times Index fell during four of the last five trading days to end the week a net 9.85 points
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    • 711 4 Sales of greenback by Japanese exporters likely to support yen: dealers AFP [HONG KONG] Improving economic data from the United States and hopes for a revival in the world's largest economy saw the US dollar rise against Asian regional currencies over
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 363 6  -  EYE on the economy wholesale prices By\ Siow Li Sen DOMESTIC wholesale prices rose in June from a year ago, yet another indicator that the economy is recovering. Reinforcing signals that demand in the local economy is improving, the month-on-month June indices have also
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    • 416 6  -  Purchaser said to be low-profile Indonesian investor who is paying $36m for historic building By\ Kalpana Rashiwala HONGKONG Shanghai Banking Corporation has finally found a buyer for the historic Mac Donald House at Dhoby Ghaut, sources told BT. The price is $36 million and
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    • 563 6  -  New Downtown site to have residential, retail components By' Vince Chong CITY Developments is likely to release its New Downtown project at Marina Boulevard only in early 2004 as it awaits developments at the government's planned Business Financial Centre (BPC) nearby,
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    • 226 6  -  MAIL bag Matthias Yao Deputy Secretary General NTUC I REFER to the letter "Why flexi-wage is hard to implement" by Thomas Ling Min Sing (Mailbag, Aug 1). In explaining why employers find it difficult to implement the flexi-wage system, Mr Ling says
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    • 235 6  -  Darrell Metzger Chief Executive Sentosa Leisure Group I REFER to the letter "A Pleasure Island for families" (Mailbag, July 30). I would like to thank Sim Beng Choon for his suggestions for Sentosa. Such ideas help us to continually shape a Sentosa experience
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    • 117 6  -  Tan Chin Keong Head, Operations Consumer Banking Singapore Standard Chartered WE refer to the letter "One-hour wait for 'service'?" by Denis Distant (Mailbag, July 30). We have reviewed our records and established that there was indeed a queue for counter transactions at the branch on
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    • 1283 8  -  Vikram Khanna reports on the post-mortems of the Indon, Korean and Brazil crises carried out by the fund's own evaluation office Vikram Khanna INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund officials seriously misjudged former president Suharto's commitment to Indonesia's programme with the IMF in 1997, which led the country's
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    • 227 8 SET up in July 2001, the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF is mandated to provide "objective and independent evaluation on issues related to the IMF'. The lEO describes itself as operating "independently of IMF management and at arm's length from the IMFs Executive Board"
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 694 10  -  BT comment KL STOCKS Malaysia's ties with Thailand seem to have become warmer eddie toh WILL Malaysians do more business with Thais instead of with Singaporeans in the future? This possibility doesn't look too far-fetched. The Malaysian government has gotten the ball rolling to forge closer
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    • 323 10 MANILA AFP SOUTH-EAST Asian finance ministers are to meet this week to lay the groundwork for a financial system that will fuel a single Asean market, similar to the European Community, by 2020, officials said. The ministers from the 10-member Asean will
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    • 249 10 PORT DICKSON Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that he believes Singapore will delay the arbitration process for settling its water dispute with Malaysia. "I believe Singapore will delay it because they are hoping that come 2011, then the agreement will expire,"
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    • 635 10  -  COMMENTARY By\ Harish Mehta I T came as a surprise tnat among the three Indochinese countries it was Cambodia that was the first to become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Cambodia was always thought to be less stable than both Vietnam and Laos,
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    • 434 10 SEOUL Investors are betting on H2 spending recovery Reuters INVESTORS are betting that Asian technology firms will profit from a recovery in electronics spending, boosting shares in the sector 42 per cent since midApril. But quarterly results from these firms show the jury
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    • NOTEBook
      • 112 10 AFP [BEIJING] Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell and a Chinese partner plan to borrow a record US$2.7 billion from a group of banks to ftind a vast petrochemical project in south China, state media said on Saturday. The money will be channelled into the construction of
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      • 75 10 AFP l KUALA LUMPUKJ The party of jailed former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim merged with another party yesterday to boost opposition strength in taking on the ruling National Front coalition that has held power for 46 years. The new multiracial People's Justice Party
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      • 87 10 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's state-run Central Deposit Insurance Co will take over the financially troubled Chung Shing Bank from today, while the search continues for a private buyer, the Ministry of Finance said on Saturday. The ministry plans to sell the bank's non-performing loans (NPLs),
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    • 682 11 HONG KONG Some analysts say it is still more of a help than a hindrance AFP HONG KONG'S recent political turmoil, sparked by a massive rally over a controversial anti-sub-version law, has raised fresh questions over the wisdom of maintaining the local
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    • 498 11 HONG KONG Pro-democracy politicians launch drive to push Tung to quit AP AFP Reuters HONG KONG leader Tung Chee-hwa has said the public will be consulted on electoral reforms next year, after hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets
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    • 359 11 SINGAPORE Reuters CHINA'S overheated economy is likely to slow markedly over the coming year, taking a big chunk out of Asian export growth, investment bank ÜBS said last week. Jonathan Anderson, ÜBS's chief Asia-Pacific economist, said China had grown at a 12-13 per
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    • 253 11 HONG KONG AP ACTION film hero Jackie Chan is starring in a television advertisement that will be broadcast in 30 cities around the world in a bid to revive Hong Kong's battered tourism industry after the Sars outbreak, officials said on Saturday.
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    • 348 11 HONG KONG One way is to relax mortgage ceiling for old flats Reuters HONG KONG'S government said on Saturday that it was studying measures, including relaxing the mortgage ceiling for old flats and changing the stamp duty mechanism, to boost the city's battered
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    • 921 11 I K+> KING WAN CORPORATION LIMITED NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fourth Annual General Meeting of KING WAN CORPORATION LIMITED will be held at Warren Golf Country Club, 81 Choa Chu Kong Way, Singapore *****3 on Friday, 22 August 2003 at 10.00 a.m. to
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    • 672 11 FISCHER TECH LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of Fischer Tech IJd (the "Company") will he held at Sheraton Towers Singapore, Ballroom 4, Level 2, Thirty-Nine Scotts Road. Singapore *****0 on 20 August 2003 at
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  • 839 12 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Gold prices plunged over the course of last week as positive US economic data and a surging US dollar ate into the metal's appeal, while oil saw muted trade despite a quota-fixing meeting of the Organisation of
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  • 1563 12 SICOM FUTUkES Augl RU68ER futures (Closing prices) RSS1(SccntVkg} ClOM Volume Open Month High Low Sett (touts) Inttftst Sep 03 178.75 Oct 03 176.00 Mow 03 ***** Dec 03 172.50 RSS3(UScmb/kq) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 03 iOLOO 100.25 iciOO WOO 6300 Oct 03 98.75 97.75
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  • WORLD news
    • 441 13 NEW YORK It's ran to benefit its broker-dealer members, says investor group Bloomberg THE New York Stock Exchange operates primarily to benefit its member securities firms and doesn't make protecting investors a priority, a body representing institutional investors said in a damning report.
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 100 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Most economists expect the Federal Reserve will keep official interest rates at 45-year lows for a long time to help underwrite growth. The few economists who still expect the Fed will need to cut rates again have postponed the timing of another
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      • 79 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] The number of companies downgraded to junk is falling this year for the first time since 1996, Standard Poor's (S&P) said on Friday. So far this year, just 40 companies worldwide with U5556.9 billion in debt have been cut to junk,
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      • 45 13 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] ChevronTexaco Corp said on Friday it would sell up to US$6 billion in assets to streamline the company and boost returns. Its second-quarter profit quadrupled to US$l.6 billion. Sales rose 16 per cent to US$29 billion. —LAT-WP
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    • 557 13  -  But balls hope for sharp profit revival to keep momentum Prom Neil Bahrmann in Lorulon MOST UK companies that have reported results in the past few weeks have announced an improvement in profits, but this hasn't pushed the market to new
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    • 255 13 NEW YORK Bloomberg NEW York attorney-general Eliot Spitzer is investigating the circumstances that led to the departure of Merrill Lynch Co's No 2 executive, Thomas Patrick last week. The probe comes after the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday about a possible
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    • 521 13 NEW YORK NYT THOMAS Patrick, who abruptly departed as Merrill Lynch's executive vicechairman last week, mastered many banking arts during his quarter-century career. A shrewd investment banker, a skilful financial engineer and a cost cutter par excellence, Mr Patrick always found his
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    • 443 14 NEW YORK Jnly sees more S&P index companies paying dividends and more new and increased dividends NYT COMPANIES are raising dividends at a rapid rate in the wake of a new law that cut taxes on the payments, but investors still seem to prefer shares
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    • 204 14 LAT—WP [NEW YORK] How the stock market has been doing lately depends on when you asked the question last week and whether you watch market patterns or economic fundamentals. On Thursday the answer was that the Dow Jones Industrial Average had just
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 199 14 URVFTIC CROSSWORD P"ce (1-4) °OWN Bln the habit of stealing things YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 Where crime is cooked up? having eaten a doughnut Across: 1 Strangeness, 7 Sniffed, (7.7) perhaps (6-8) 8 peters, 10 Clare. 11 Sceptical! 2 Letters on hostilities after 13 That dear French theory 12 Erasmus 14
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    • 941 15 FISCHER TECH LTD NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND NOTICE OF BOOKS CLOSURE DATE Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held on Wednesday. 20 August 2003 at 3.00 p.m. at Sheraton Towers Singapore. Ballroom 4, Level 2, Thirty-Nine Scotts Road, Singapore *****0
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  • BizIT
    • 690 15  -  IT comment INFOTECH By 2006, the number of prepaid subscribers in Asia is expected to reach ®9% of the mobile market compared to 57% now tang weng fai Amidst the noise created by the mobile phone market in the last few years, one
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    • 469 15 Reuters [BANGALORE] Like many companies worldwide, Indian mining group Dempo uses handheld computers to help it manage data about its business. But while executives in the US might use an HP iPaq or a top-of-the-line model from Palm Inc, the device Dempo uses is
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    • ONTHESHELF
      • 80 15 KOREAN giant Samsung Electronics has launched a new all-in-one compact digital laser printer. The SCX-4216F costs $998 and will be available by the middle of this month. It 1 a nnm U1VO IV £S|SU1 (pages per minute) at 600 by 600 dpi (dots per inch) resolution
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      • 54 15 MACROMEDIA Inc has introduced Macromedia Contribute 2, a tool to update and manage content on existing websites. The solution works on Mac OS X and will debut later this month at about $170. Upgraders can buy it for $20 for a limited time on Macromedia's online store.
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      • 77 15 CANON has unveiled an expandable and network-ready colour laser printer. The LBP 2410 costs $1,449, offers a print resolution of 9,600 by 600 dpi and prints 16 ppm in black and 4 ppm in colour within a minute without having to warm up. Canon said it
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      • 70 15  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury ORACLE Corp has added Web conferencing to Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2. A perpetual licence for the entire suite costs US$6O per collaboration program user and an annual licence costs US$l5 per collaboration program user. Oracle Web conferencing can be licensed separately
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    • 230 15 Reuters [NEW YORK/AMSTERDAM] Three chipmakers and Nokia Oyj formed an alliance that hopes to attract dozens of rivals and put the design of new phones on a faster footing. STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments said they had formed an alliance to spur development
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    • 253 15 Xinhua [KUALA LUMPUR) Although Malaysia is doing well in developing its telecom infrastructure and services, there is a need to expand existing facilities and further narrow the digital gap. Energy, Communications and Multimedia Minister Leo Moggie said. He told reporters that his ministry
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    • 382 15 Area unemployment much higher th»n national average AFP [SAN FRANCISCO] US tech stocks may be soaring, but high unemployment and the empty "see-through" office buildings overlooking San Francisco Bay hint that Silicon Valley is far from recovery. Despite the 2.4 per cent surge in
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    • 164 15 AFP [NEW YORK] The Internet is expected to account for US$96 bUlion in retail sales in 2003 in the US, of which some 30 per cent wiU be for travel, according to a new survey. Forrester Research said travel services wiU
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    • 893 16  -  BT exclusive Its outsourcing customers include NOL, Siam Cement Infineon, Avaya, BP and AT&T, as Chellam finds out Raju Chellam CONSULTING giant Accenture plans to focus on IT and BPO (business process outsourcing) in Singapore over the next couple of years as more businesses
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    • 329 16  -  By Raju Chellam OUTSOURCING as a proportion of net revenue has been on the rise at NYSElisted Accenture as the firm continues to target this business for growth. In its Q3 ended May 31, 2003, outsourcing represented 31 per cent of net revenue, up from 23
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    • 124 16 Reuters {SEOULJ South Korea sees electronics products exports during the second half of this year rising 18.4 per cent from a year earlier to US$3B.4 billion, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said. A recovery in the US electronics industry and
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    • 98 16 Reuters [LAS VEGAS] Handheld computers used to store phone numbers, medical and credit-card information leave millions of gadget lovers fully exposed to identi-ty-theft and other crimes. Software is now widely available to allow hackers to steal passwords and other data from popular Palm-based computers, especially when
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    • 212 16 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] French defence company Thales said it has won orders valued at US$lBO million from Malaysia's AtlasONE telecom operator to provide equipment and services for a national wireless broadband network. AtlasONE wUI use the network to offer IP (Internet Protocol) services
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      • 62 16 MAYBANK Singapore introduced an Internet Banking Code (IBC) in Singapore last week as an added layer of security protection for its customers' e-banking transactions. This allows customers to choose if they wish to either introduce IBC to all or part of their e-banking transactions at www.maybank2u.com.sg.
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      • 44 16 NETWORK Associates has announced its new McAfee Avert Dat (virus definition data files) Notification Service. This is a free subscription-based service that provides weekly e-mail alerts on the latest .DAT files for download by McAfee users. For details, visit www.mcafeesecurity.com.
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      • 81 16 NANYANG Technological University's (NTU) Internet connections within its campus have been migrated to Asia Netcom's global IP network. Asia Netcom is a network services provider. NTU is the third university to tap into the SingAren (Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network) initiative to consolidate Internet
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      • 61 16 THE Singapore division of CPA Australia has tied up with NETg (part of Thomson Corp) and IBM Corp to introduce e-PD, an electronic professional development program to enhance face-to-face training delivery. This pilot project undertaken will gauge the suitability of e-PD implementation for eventual use
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      • 40 16 iPARK Singapore, set up to promote Korean IT technology, has appointed Adam Tan as marketing director for South-east Asia. Mr Tan will be responsible for market development in the Philippines, Australia and India. For details, visit www.iparksea.com.
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      • 47 16  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury INFO NET Services Corp, which provides communications services forMNCs, has appointed Peter Chai as vice-president and general manager of its Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore. Mr Chai was previously general manager of international marketing at PCCW-HKTI in Hong Kong.
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    • 580 17  -  Port moves to arrest steady decline in competitiveness By P T Bangsberg AFTER much discussion and many plans, Taiwan's main Port of Kaohsiung appears to be moving ahead on ways to improve the competitiveness that has slipped steadily over recent years. The
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    • 164 17 [SINGAPORE] Vietnam's Ministry of Finance has slashed its port charges in an effort to boost business, specifically rewarding carriers for multiple trips. All vessels calling at crude oil terminals will be temporarily exempted from navigation dues and anchorage fees. All carriers with more than eight vessel
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    • 93 17 Reuters [KARACHI] Pakistani authorities will start draining a Greek oil tanker, grounded off the southern port of Karachi, despite rough seas, a port official said. A salvage ship has arrived from a Gulf port into which oil from Tasman Spirit will be transferred. The
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    • 721 18  -  LINER SCENE -By David Hughes THE commodity that is shipped around the world in refrigerated conditions in the greatest quantities is rice and by a massive margin. I freely admit I could not have told you that before reading a press release from GP
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      • 2018 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Mi Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX LILAC 055S 055S 1 04/********** O4O60OO3 2100 008 ACX MAGNOLIA 066S 066S 1_ 04JW2003-0500 *****003 1700 B07 ACX RAFFLES OWN 080N 1 05/*****3-060) 05/*****3 2200 ALAMJAYA 2 8856 8856
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      • 139 25 Anc4 Australia: Picnic Day. UKingdom: Summer Hoi. Aug 12 Thailand: Queen's Birthday. Aug 15 France: Assumption Day. Italy: Assumption Day. S Korea: Liberation Day. Anf 17 Indonesia: Indepen Day. Aug 24 UKingdom: Summer Holiday. Aug 31 Malaysia: National Day. Philippines: Nat Heroes Day. Sep 1 Canada: Labour Day.
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      • 820 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Lid. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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      • 525 26 Iraq war, Sars fears poshed revenue down 18% in Q2 Reuters [CHICAGO] Bankrupt UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, posted the biggest net loss of all major US carriers for the quarter just ended, including reimbursement from the federal government
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      • 445 26 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways, Asia's sixthlargest carrier by sales, will probably report a record loss for the first half after slashing almost half of its flights as Sars sapped travel demand. Hong Kong's largest carrier may post a loss
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      • 460 26 AP [WASHINGTON] The US federal government has directed airlines to comb through clothing, shoes and every personal item carried by certain international travellers on flights bound for the US in response to a new hijacking threat, according to a memo
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      • 220 26 AP [SYDNEY] In the latest breach of Australia's airline security, a passenger carried a knife and a retractable baton onto a domestic flight, police said. The 30-year-old man became "obstructive" on a morning Regional Express flight from Lismore, in the north of
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      • 466 26 New agreement expands lists of places where families can sue AP [WASHINGTON] The US Senate has approved a treaty that will largely give the families of American passengers killed on international flights the right to sue in the US even if
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      • 116 26 [SINGAPORE] Australian Airlines has launched three weekly, non-stop flights between Singapore and Bali and a weekly service between Singapore and Sabah more than doubling its Singapore flight schedule. Until last week, Australian Airlines only operated three weekly flights between Singapore and Cairns, Australia. The new
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